Framing the Sound

Author: TC Conner

  • A New Leader

     It’s time for a new leader to take the reins. And all I can do is hope that the decisions made during the next four years will benefit all of us. The benefits  may be itty bitty for some and quite extravagant for others. Who determines the doling out of these blessings is what puzzles me. But it always has and probably always will. 

    I’m not educated enough in politics to discuss how it all works, My basic understanding is that the president, congress, and senate are all supposed to be in favor of helping everyone else outside of that rather entangled sphere of things. 

    It gets even more tangled when I see the benefits he gets compared to what we get and I try to understand how the distribution system (politics?) works. Spock said it best when he was locked down in the engineroom of the Enterprise dying from radiation poisoning: “Don’t grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh…” Kirk finishes for him, “The needs of the few.” Spock replies, “Or the one.”  

                                        

    My brother is an artist and sometimes I’ll give him a prompt and he’ll do a bunch of magic with brushes and paint and turn out something like what you see above. I have it framed on my wall directly in front of my desk. There’re so many fascinating and interesting things going on in that painting. And every time I look at it, I see something I’ve not noticed before. I don’t remember the prompt I gave, I’m just grateful he painted it for me. I think I’ll give him the Spock and Kirk exchange for a prompt and see if he has time to create another magical painting. Maybe “The Golden Age” would be a good prompt? 

  • All The Little Things

    They can add up, but trying to get an accurate count is impossible. Perhaps if I had started counting say around age 10 or so, I’d be able to show some kind of list of what those little things were. I guess in the long run it really doesn’t matter, especially when you’re on the downhill slide. 

    In my first post of 2025 (before I started this blog) I mentioned that I had missed the bus to Nashville many years ago. I was referring to my dream of one day playing guitar in a band, a band good enough that each member could earn a decent living. I wanted a career doing something that I loved, but that dream never materialized. Maybe it was just one of those little things. 

    What can I attribute that little thing to? If you start looking for what causes things to happen the way they do you just might find yourself so deep in the why and how that the who what and where gets lost. In other words, if that little thing I mentioned had become a reality, the reality I’m living today wouldn’t exist. And I don’t like the thought of not having what I have now. And what I have now is certainly no little thing. 

    I may not be able to count all the little things, but as long as I can tally up what I have now, I’ll be just fine.

    Me and my son AJ had a little thing going on the day we recorded this cover of “Weird Fishes” by Radiohead.  

     

  • Sunday Funday?

    I used to write every Sunday over at my website and then email the link to my loyal readers. Doing so has gotten to be a little bit of a pain in the patooty as I have to email the link after writing. Also, folks didn’t have the capability to make direct comments as that feature isn’t available on my website unless I want to upgrade to a more expensive plan. I added a page on my website where folks could make a comment using a simple form and I’d get notified. It should be easy peasy commenting here instead of how you commented using the form on my website.  

     Another thing I used to do was blog right here. I wrote often and included photos. Back then I wrote about gardening mostly as I was a gardening columnust for a local paper. The paper is still published and I’d still be writing my column if not for all the free stuff “out there” these days. But there’s no more weekly gardening articles in that paper, just a seasonal piece compiled from “out there.”

    As implied by the name of my blog, my aim is to write about photogaphy and music. And probalby a bunch of other stuff too, because I have a creative itch that always needs scratched.

  • Starting Over

    I should have kept my Blogger blog from years ago. Learning how to do this all over again at my age is kind of daunting. I’m not up to snuff on being a YouTube creator either. But there’s a weird need I have for doing this creative stuff. There’s two other hobbies besides photography that I’ve been doing much longer than YouTube and making photos: playing guitar and gardening.
    Lots of things then, for me to write/blog about. Why don’t I stop saying “blog?” I’ve never liked the sound nor the look of that word. I’m going to call myself a writer, not a blogger. A writer, a photographer, a musician, and a gardener. Why don’t I combine all four of those and start writing about “wriphomugar?” And if you didn’t know, writers have the authority to make up words.

  • Frames of Memory and Moment

    Female Cardinal

     

  • Welcome!

     I used to do this blogging stuff years ago but as the saying goes….life got in the way. 

    However, life has moved to the slow lane and I decided to try this blogging thing again. 

    I will write about and show you things relating to my two main passions: photography and music. If you are interested in either of those two subjects I have a few things I can tell you about each. 

    Welcome to Framing the Sound. I’ll be arranging things and appearances here a bit more to my liking as time progresses.